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August said the committee sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, asking that he "immediately declare Blanket Hill a national historical landmark...
...declared a federal national landmark, that will give tremendous momentum to the efforts to prevent construction of the gym and desecration of the site," August said...
Serendip does not go behind-the-scenes on 2001, despite advertising promises to the contrary. The Clarke-Kubrick collaboration was fully described in Lost Worlds of 2001. As a result, the only attention paid to the landmark film comes in the form of Clarke's slightly defensive explanation of how astronaut David Bowman managed to survive in a vacuum for several seconds while re-entering his space ship. Clarke cites experiments on animals in vacuum chambers in an effort to disprove the old sci-fi truism that an astronaut would explode instantly in the vacuum of space. The book scintillates...
...William Rubin, it is the sort of show which very few museums could even attempt: 124 oils and watercolors, including nearly every major painting that has been preserved from Cézanne's last working decade, 1895-1906. Its catalogue, with nine essays by various experts, is a landmark in Cézanne studies. There has never been a Cézanne show like this before, and there may never be one again. One is drawn back, beyond the theory, beyond the historical results, into the most radical meditations on space, shape, light and how to paint them...
...losers are the Desert Inn, Frontier and Landmark hotels in Las Vegas. The Sands and Harold's Club, located in Reno, are nourishing. The Castaways, a Las Vegas hotel-casino, and the Silver Slipper casino are barely breaking even...